@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century -- without which there would be no global wheat trade. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-persephone/
@jblanca42 And finance. This week, @nelshist explains that wheat warehouses were the first banks, how the grain futures market emerged from the US Civil War and how Russia robbed the widows and orphans of France.
https://https://eatthispodcast.com/finance-grain
Next week, empire!
A bookmark with a fixed number of sticky tags on it is a brilliant idea. No more tags? Stop reading and write notes on the things you tagged.
@ECLLD Very happy to see my dreams come true. I don't understand why my reader failed to pick up the feed automatically, but I have now added it and will look forward to seeing updates as they happen.
“Republicans are now preparing a Fascist coup while Democrats wring their hands and dither.”
It is a worry, to be sure.
@neilbuttery Agreed, blackcurrant leaf tea is delicious. Right now we also have an abundance of mint that will all die back in a couple of weeks. What other leaves are good to steep fresh?
@cll2606 This is annoying. It seems that my install of WithKnown is not playing nicely to POSSE Twitter replies. It might be something to do with Quilll, but I doubt it. More likely to be accumulating cruft in WithKnown. I want to keep using it, but ...
@RJABuggs @FoodiePharma I'm hearing that the main cold store is safe and has mostly been safety. So while there is clearly a present threat, it just isn't true that any “terrible loss to plant genetic resources” has occurred. @LiseLykkeS may know more.
Continuing my little excursions and using the IndieWebRing as my guide, I chanced up Chris DeLuca's CSS to Style a Novel https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/base-css-to-style-a-novel/. I particularly liked the explanations for each of his chosen rules.
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Stupid 119 2/2/2
I feel a longer word deserves more turns and backspaces. Again, there's no point telling me when I have used both backspaces on my second turn, to clear and try again, if you are going to fill in the answer for me. I did get it, but won't spoil it.